San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1887-09-29
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Mercury at $50 yesterday morning. Good
bye Mother Hubbards
Mr.. J. s. Steele SUCCEEDS his brother In
the feed business. See corrected card.
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A neat, handsome new sign now decor
ates tho entrance of the Glover National
Bank.
We continue to furnish the FREE PREss
to preachers and preachers widows at half
price-Sl year. IT,
Single copies of the FREE Press may be
had at the Office and at the San Marcos
Bookstore-5 cents each. II.
The s. M. O. l.. s. O. have postponed
their meeting until next week on account Of
having no books. They expect to receive
them the first of the week.
Profuse rims came of the first OF the
week, sufficient to supply plenty OF stock
water. The grass and other vegetables are
now coming forward rapidly.
The editor was called away from business
before the completion of this issue of the
FREE Press; hence some intended editori-
ais are deferred. He will be absent proba-
bly some three days.
Since the rains the trec-frogs are filling
the air with their melodious(?) strains.
Pears to us they must have been sort O.
shrunk up like during the spring and sum-
mer No wonder they are glad to recover
wind and voice again.
MARRIAGE LICENSES since our last report
Henry Mearsen and Sophie Schaeffer.
@. H. Baltgill and Della Beam.
W. III. Garsden and Cecilia Ezelle.
Francisco Gonzales and Elopio Mans.
Frank Smith and Eliza Canada.
Remember that perhaps the most accept
able present you can make to friends resi-
dent abroad is a copy of the SAN MARCOS
FREE PRESS. And persons about leaving
this place to sojourn elsewhere should not
fail to subscribe and thus be enabled to
keep posted as to home happenings. If.
In reply to an invitation of Mayor Hardy
and the City Council to visit San Marcos,
j. e. Labatt of San Antonio, and f. N.
Oliver of Pilot Point, commissioners to
locate the Orphan Asylum, came over from
Austin yesterday morning and were shown
our advantages. We learn that the geneyal
opinion is, that at this time we are not in a
condition to compete for it.
estate Press" we'll says:
"Boom your town is now all the rage
with the papers, The idea seems to be to
build up the towns without regard to their
surroundings or resources. 1t remains to be
proven that everybody can be made rich by
specializing in town lots. 1t would pay one
to take the files of Texas paper fifty years
old and mark the similarity of the efforts of
that day and this in city building Many
towns that were then represented as rapidly
becoming cities are wholly forgotten. Build
up the country and the towns will grow
where they are needed"
Mr.. Piper, time-keeper for Burns d
Peters contractors of construction of the
new railroad, was found dead in the river
below the railroad bridge last Saturday
about two o'clock in the afternoon. The
body was first discovered by Jake Plummer,
colored man, who gave the alarm. The
man was seen about three miles from town
the previous evening, footing it from Lock-
hart when he hailed the train and asked to
be taken aboard, but they did not stop for
him. He was of medium height, dark
hair and mustache and would weigh about
100 pounds. There was wound over one
eye, probablay made by his fall from the
bridge. The unfortunate man evidently
met his death by falling off the bridge.
The dead man received a Christian burial
and we learn Messrs. Burns Il Peters were
liberal in defraying the expenses of the
same.